Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Rulers in dictatorships like China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia have allowed a certain degree of economic freedom at home while taking advantage of the access to markets in rich democratic countries. These regimes — particularly China — have managed to turn their economies into not only crucial cogs for supply chains around the world, but also important destinations for investments flowing from the democratic world.
Capital flows to these regimes are very problematic — there is a lack of transparency, an absence of the rule of law, and blurred lines between where the state ends and private ownership begins. They have enriched ruling elites and may be directly financing egregious human rights abuses.
As part of Responsible Finance, HRF launched the Defund Dictators website in June 2022 to inform investors of the extent to which emerging markets ETFs are allocating resources to authoritarian regimes. #HumanRightsFoundation
Chapters:
00:00:00 - The Reduction of Extreme Poverty in South and East Asia
00:00:33 - Expansion of Democracy and Human Rights:
00:00:57 - China's Authoritarianism and Surveillance System
00:01:19 - Chinese Communist Party's Human Rights Abuse
00:01:46 - Market Uncertainty and Totalitarian Governments
00:02:09 - The Problem with International Stocks
00:02:33 - Investing in Emerging Markets: The Influence of Dictatorships
00:02:57 - Accountability in Dictatorships
00:03:21 - Responsible Finance and Defunding Dictators
00:03:43 - Defund Dictators.org
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#ResponsibleInvesting #HumanRights #DefundDictators #AuthoritarianRegimes #EmergingMarkets #ChinaHumanRights #UyghurGenocide #HongKongProtests #SurveillanceState #EthicalInvesting #GlobalTrade #InternationalFinance #BlackRock #InvestorAccountability #LifeAndLibertyIndexes #HumanRightsFoundation #StopFundingOppression #RethinkInvesting #FreedomNotTyranny #PeopleOverProfits #ConsciousCapitalism
Rulers in dictatorships like China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia have allowed a certain degree of economic freedom at home while taking advantage of the access to markets in rich democratic countries. These regimes — particularly China — have managed to turn their economies into not only crucial cogs for supply chains around the world, but also important destinations for investments flowing from the democratic world.
Capital flows to these regimes are very problematic — there is a lack of transparency, an absence of the rule of law, and blurred lines between where the state ends and private ownership begins. They have enriched ruling elites and may be directly financing egregious human rights abuses.
As part of Responsible Finance, HRF launched the Defund Dictators website in June 2022 to inform investors of the extent to which emerging markets ETFs are allocating resources to authoritarian regimes. #HumanRightsFoundation
Chapters:
00:00:00 - The Reduction of Extreme Poverty in South and East Asia
00:00:33 - Expansion of Democracy and Human Rights:
00:00:57 - China's Authoritarianism and Surveillance System
00:01:19 - Chinese Communist Party's Human Rights Abuse
00:01:46 - Market Uncertainty and Totalitarian Governments
00:02:09 - The Problem with International Stocks
00:02:33 - Investing in Emerging Markets: The Influence of Dictatorships
00:02:57 - Accountability in Dictatorships
00:03:21 - Responsible Finance and Defunding Dictators
00:03:43 - Defund Dictators.org
Learn more about our work at the Human Rights Foundation!
Website: hrf.org
X (formerly known as Twitter): twitter.com/HRF
Instagram: instagram.com/hrf
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/hrf
Subscribe to HRF’s Substack: humanrightsfoundation.substack.com
Join us in promoting freedom where it’s most at risk!
Donate today: hrf.org/?form=donate
#ResponsibleInvesting #HumanRights #DefundDictators #AuthoritarianRegimes #EmergingMarkets #ChinaHumanRights #UyghurGenocide #HongKongProtests #SurveillanceState #EthicalInvesting #GlobalTrade #InternationalFinance #BlackRock #InvestorAccountability #LifeAndLibertyIndexes #HumanRightsFoundation #StopFundingOppression #RethinkInvesting #FreedomNotTyranny #PeopleOverProfits #ConsciousCapitalism
